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ing feebly diverging and almost straight thence to the base, the 

 apex shallowly sinuate, three-fifths as wide as the base, the angles 

 right and only slightly blunt ; surface rather finely but strongly, 

 remotely punctate, becoming coarsely and much less sparsely so 

 laterally, the bead thick, much thickened apically, curving but little 

 at base ; scutellum moderate, transversely triangular ; elytra not 

 quite one-half longer than wide, rounded at the sides and narrowed 

 to the obtusely ogival apex in posterior two-fifths, the punctures 

 deep but uneven in size ; prosternum strongly, rather closely punc- 

 tate, the process unmargined except feebly at base ; hind femora 

 minutely, sparsely, the abdomen rather strongly, somewhat less 

 sparsely, punctate. Length 9.3 mm. ; width 4.25 mm. " Cal." 



perpolita n. sp. 



Elytra almost equally and much less sparsely punctate, less smooth 

 though almost similarly rugose behind. Body more elongate, sim- 

 ilarly convex, less shining, the anterior parts sometimes faintly 

 alutaceous, deep black, the antennai and distal parts of the legs 

 picescent or rufous ; head strongly but loosely, unequally punc- 

 tate, the sinus moderately deep, not wide, the anterior canthus 

 obliquely subangulate or obtuse, fully as prominent as the poste- 

 rior ; antennjB moderate ; prothorax one-half wider than long, 

 formed as in perpolita but less narrowed at the shallowly sinuate 

 apex, the latter two-thirds as wide as the base, the sides of which 

 are more abruptly oblique, with the hind angles not more pro- 

 duced posteriorly but more narrowly and abruptly so ; bead not so 

 thick and not thickened apically ; punctures much finer and a little 

 closer throughout in the same relative parts of the surface ; scu- 

 tellum and elytra nearly similar, the latter somewhat less rapidly 

 narrowed behind ; punctures strong, somewhat vmeven, each^with 

 a small yellowish-silvery seta, more distinct posteriorly but not 

 sufficiently long to constitute pubescence ; under surface similar 

 throughout, except that the abdomen is much more minutely, 

 sparsely punctulate. Length 8. 6-9. 7 mm. ; width 4.0-4.6 mm. 

 (c?, 9). San Francisco. Two specimens taken by the writer in 

 the suburbs, one example from the County, taken by Mr, Fuchs, 

 and several from the Levette cabinet , pudica n. sp. 



21 — Sides of the prothorax subangulate though rounded at the middle. 

 Form oblong-elongate, convex, deep black throughout, alutaceous, 

 the elytra rather strongly shining ; head very finely, rather sparsely, 

 subevenly punctulate, the sinus rather small but deep, subangular, 

 the lobes obtuse, the anterior canthus obtuse, very neai"ly as prom- 

 inent as the posterior ; antenna) moderately thick ; prothorax almost 

 four-fifths wider than long, the sides strongly converging though 

 only slightly arcuate anteriorly, parallel and straight in about basal 

 half, the apex moderately sinuate, even less than three-fifths as 

 wide as the base, the angles obtuse but narrowly rounded, the 

 base moderately and rather narrowly, evenly sinuate at each side ; 

 surface remotely, very minutely punctulate, with an impunctate 

 medial linear area, the punctures gradually stronger and closer 



